Set of Three Turned Pine Candlesticks, Scandinavian Work, 1960s.

These three candlesticks in turned solid pine decline almost anthropomorphic silhouettes: bodies curved as a baluster or a flared skirt, rounded shoulders and overhanging collars forming both hat and bobèche, the smallest adopting a diabolo profile with an open cup. The close grain of the pine, left natural, animates each profile with fine regular striations.

This working of turned pine, at once naive and rigorous, is typical of Scandinavian craft of the 1960s, which raised the domestic object in pale wood to the rank of an icon of Nordic design, in the lineage of the Swedish and Finnish productions spread throughout Europe.

Condition report: Good overall condition. Pine with a fine even blond patina, crisp turnings, minute marks of use and possible traces of wax. A warm trio for a festive table, a fireplace or a shelf with a Nordic spirit.